GUMBY GRUB
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sun Apr 4 10:31:42 UTC 2004
On Apr 3, 2004, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> i started this thread
No you didn't. You *think* you started a new thread, but since the
headers of your e-mail contained the following line:
In-Reply-To: <406E743A.7090503 at glossolalie.org>
it's obviously not a new thread, but rather a follow up on Thierry's
e-mail. Obviously you chose to reply to his posting and then
attempted to make your posting look like it was a new thread, but the
header above made it be part of the same thread, instead of starting a
new thread. This is a practice known as `thread hijacking'. Correct
behavior to start a new thread is to use commands such as `compose new
message', `post' or however your MUA calls it. `reply to *', `follow
up', etc, will all carry headers that will make your posting part of
the same thread.
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Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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